OLPC Uganda: connecting schools in Pokot
John Valent with the E4N Foundation has been working with children and families in Cheminy, and is expanding to two more schools in Pokot as the new school term begins. They use a collection of...
View ArticleLaura Hosman on her Haiti site visit
Laura Hosman has been sharing a series of reports from her Haiti site visit to a school she is working with in Port-au-Prince. This and Bruce Baikie’s empowering Haiti blog provide two great views of...
View ArticleHavergal Institute girls work with Molweni orphanage in South Africa
A team of high-school students at the Institute at Havergal is helping to implement an XO program this August at the NOAH’s Ark orphanage (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) in Molweni, South...
View ArticleUndercover UXO Update
The Michigan State unexploded-landmine-avoidance game was recently released for PC as well as XO. Children testers in Cambodia and developers were interviewed about it earlier this month.
View ArticleA Nepali hacker’s wishes for the School Server
Abhishek Singh from OLE Nepal published his long and excellent XS wishlist, generating a long discussion on the server-devel mailing list (1, 2) and other discussion online. He discusses some...
View ArticleOLPC Canada reaches Maaqtusiis School in Ahousat
Maaqtusiis School in Ahousat yesterday distributed XOs to every student and teacher, and hired a community “champion” to assist with any technical difficulties throughout the school year. This is a...
View ArticleRasha Hussein shares her journey with OLPC in Ramallah
Rasha Hussein writes on the TEDx Ramallah blog about her journey with OLPC and PaleXO over the past year in Ramallah, and how she was welcomed to the group by Noura Salhi and found friends and...
View ArticleComputers as reading prostheses
by Antonio M. Battro, Chief Education Officer, OLPC Children can learn a new common and universal language that we may call “digitalese”. Even before speaking, infants can perform with the computer...
View ArticleNickelodeon partners with OLPC on multimedia contest
From the Very Exciting dept. : Nickelodeon Latin America (part of MTV Latin America) is partnering with OLPC to run an international contest to design multimedia about improving the environment....
View ArticleKenyan teachers on strike, XOs and volunteers take over
In rural Eshibinga, Kenya, teacher Peter Omunga has at the Eshibinga Primary School, Kenya, been doing an amazing job sharing his experiences with Sugar and OLPC over the summer. Peter maintains the...
View ArticleRwanda plans international conference on technology in education
OLPC Rwanda has been named to the scientific subcommittee of the International Conference on Technology in Education, organized by the Rwandan Education Ministry and Education Board. The conference...
View ArticleDigital citizenship and hacking: Sugar Camp Lima, Nov 18-19
Somos Azucar, Activity Central, and escuelab are organizing Sugar Camp Lima on November 18-19, to build a new Sugar image for Peru: complete with Aymara and Quechua localizations, and activities...
View ArticleThanks for making the San Francisco summit great
I join the SF summit organizers in thanking everyone who helped make this year’s event possible, including the amazing attendees, Mayor Lee and SFSU graduate program director Aaron Anderson. Special...
View ArticleHealth activity updates from Nepal
OLE Nepal has focused on health activities for some years now. Recently they undertook a project to develop a suite of them with educators from the UN’s World Food Program. In their August newsletter...
View ArticleWhoa! Go: check out this year’s Win One Give One site
General Mills has rolled out their new gorgeous WinOneGiveOne campaign for their ongoing partnership with OLPC, this year supporting programs in Rwanda and Nicaragua. They’ve designed some fine art...
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South Africa: Building grassroots support for access to a modern education
As noted last week, Jackie Lustig has compiled a report from our South African projects. It draws on background data from the country, and highlights work done there over the past four years. Starting...
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Ghana Together: building networks of teachers
The non-profit Ghana Together has been repairing and deploying donated XOs in Axim, Ghana for years – now providing over 50 XOs in their Children’s Home. They and work with local techs and a student...
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Finalizó exitosamente proyecto Transformando del municipio de Chía en Colombia
Del original publicado por ANSPE. Transformando es un proyecto de innovación social que consistió en empoderar a los niños y a las niñas de las familias de la Red Unidos de Chía como agentes de cambio...
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